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FRIDAY, JUNE 104 
THE necessity for a reform in the 
еа garden names of plants, however 
pressing, has not yet made itself 
sufficiently felt among gardeners and raisers of 
new vari to compel a reform. Once more 
it was Mr. Wirrmack in the Report 
of the copi lately held in Paris. It is no use, 
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sense of the community, and therefore likely to 
be obeyed by the majority. Experience shows us 
ihat we have not yet attained to that point. The 
Royal Horticultural von might, one would 
think, very properly set an example in this way. 
If w e remember rightly, Miri are e ^ii regulating 
the naming 0 of. rden varieties, but they are not 
member happens to raise a protest, when, perhaps, 
the rule is followed, to be departed from when the 
very next plant is placed on the table. Not unnatu- 
| rally the matter i is turned into ridicule 9 by the out- 
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Committee, while retaining the Latin names for 
what it is generally agreed to consider species, and 
which are the foci or centres whence the inter- 
minable series of forms and varieties diverge, 
very properly refuses to admit Latin names fo 
the myriads of minor or minim variations that 
arise in cultivation either spontaneously or by 
the direct agency of the raiser, as in crosses and 
hybrids. It will be said that similar variations 
may and do exist in Nature among wild plants, 
and that in practice it would be impossible 
to discriminate between a cultivated and 
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of course, is true, 
but gardeners and cultivators as such need not 
trouble their heads about the matter. Leave the 
botanist to deal as he thinks fit with the forms 
found wild; let him consider them as species, 
subspecies, varieties, forms, or what not, according 
as his experience or his proclivities suggest. If 
he is wrong, or should some other botanist arrive 
at a different conclusion, as he probably will do, 
that matters little or nothing to the gardener. So 
far we have been considering the case of plants 
found wild, and imported into this country ; but 
what about the varieties that spring up in cultiva- 
tion: are they to have Latin names? Yes, if these - 
varieties can be identified by some competent 
otanist with varieties known to occur in Nature, 
and alrendy named and registered. No, if the va- 
rieties cannot be so identified ; and if they are, as 
it appears, forms which have originstodá in gardens 
as a result of the artificial conditions to which they 
have been subjected. Let us give an illustra- 
tion. Mr. Erwrs has cultivated various Tulips 
from Asia Minor, Turkestan These were 
described and named by REGEL and others from 
the wild plant—so far so good. Now when these 
plants come to be cultivated, they are found to 
vary so much one from another, and from the 
original form, that, were their history unknown, 
no one would assign them to one and the same 
species, Are we to give all these varieties Latin 
names? Such a course is not one we should 
commend ; for garden purposes we should retain 
the original ific name whatever it may be, 
and give English names to the varieties, if, 
indeed, M prove constant enough to be worthy 
of a name 
In these T. of international competition, one 
objection to the use of English names for garden 
varieties is that they are not * understanded of 
the people" of other nations. This is a difficulty 
which the spread of education and the continually 
extending intercourse between nation and nation 
tend to minimise, and it may further be reduced 
by a little judicious selection of names, Names 
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by men of all civilised nations, even if they had 
not learnt Latin from the Eton grammar. Why 
not apply them, or something similar, to these 
garden varieties? We open a catalogue at 
hazard, and the ipo entry that strikes us is 
» American Mango P n Dawn. No 
ame is given, but from the illustration it 
is evident that the plant is a form of the plant 
call y Linnzus Capsicum annuum. The 
description adds that this plant is “a Mango!” 
Asa matter of fact it may be American (suffi- 
ciently vague), but it certainly is not a Mango; 
equally certain it is not a Pepper; therefore, it 
can hardly be called Mango Pepper, except by 
the rule of contrary. For garden purposes Cap- 
sicum Golden Dawn would surely suffice, or, to 
meet the objection that the words Golden Dawn 
might not be intelligible to our friends across the 
Dens Wen be called. Capsicum Phoebus. 
severely лашты people. like- the in- 
habitants of the States begin to find the encum- 
brance and the nuisance of ill-regulated garden 
nomenclature, we may be pretty sure they will not 
be long before they devise a remedy. We have 
already alluded to the efforts made by our late 
friend the venerated MARSHALL WILDER, and 
by the American Pomological Society, and we 
may appropriately close our remarks by an ex- 
tract from an article of Mr. L . BAILEY'S 
in the March number of the American journal 
called Agricultural Science :— 
“The blame," says Mr. fina: lies largely 
with the seedaman, nurseryman, and gardener, 
There is no indication of reform from these 
sources; it remains for horticultural societies to 
demand and inaugurate it. The confusion 
owes its origin to an aping of botanical methods, 
followed by loose usage in inaccurate hands . 
- very end of excellence in the. bi inomial 
acy, perspicuity, elegance — falls 
[by the Î followed in gardens] into con- 
fusion and repulsiveness, . . . Undoubtedly the 
best method is to drop the Latin entirely beyond 
the use made of it in legitimate nomenclature. 
Societies could inaugurate reformation by adopt- 
ing two rules— 
“1, Use only English names for cultural 
varieties, 
* 2. Admit none of the Latin names in Society 
reports," 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. — The As- 
sistant Secretary requests us to say, that the date 
xed upon for the special general meeting of the 
Fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society, is — 
day, June 28, and not June 14, as was stated i 
issue of May 28. 
= 
OYAL BOTANIC SociETY.—It was announced 
had collected ieri in Brazil. They were presented 
by Mr. 
J. Р, Gas 
‚ GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL MUN 1888.— 
and ju g- 
ing from the array of names of e meg and gentle- 
men of deeem under whose аалрїсөв and | direction 
the affair wi 
success. ic e are sub-committees for agricu ulture, 
which аа horticulture and arboriculture ; che- 
mical industries, education, foreign contributions, fine 
1 
"3 plant and forcing-houses, garden impl 
vases, Ное er-pots, garden seats, statuary, fountains, 
leaves, flowers, ча ship E shingles, laths, 
staves, wood for street paving, ornamental woods 
design and furniture, dyewoods, preservation 
timber, illustrat 
collections, illustrations and descriptions of г destruc- 
tive insects, 
ore us there will be nurserymen 8, t 
open classes, the A od prizes in each Spei у 
being £7, £5, and £3. 
SHOW FIXTURES.—The following list 
this month:—Tuesday, 14th, Royal Horti 
se A med Show, and York Floral Fête (con- 
includes 
shows ris abs eee 
sgy cultural 
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